For those of you coming to Cocoa Beach, I will have my scanner with me to scan some materials related to the "Westrail" and "Dennis Storzek, Modelmaker" lines of kits that one of you is bringing.

Earlier in this thread, someone said that we'd discussed this and had determined that the usual procedure was to transfer stock car loads to a home road car, and send the off-line car back home

I have appreciated people's opinions on my question about surgical cutting instruments and they will help me in my shopping around. One primary reason for asking is that I am always interested in what

Thanks Bruce An excellent answer to my question. And strengthens my thinking with regard to resharpening Xacto blades. Which I have done successfully. But have no experience with scalpels. And with

At the IRM Pullman Library, we are in the final stages of transferring Pullman - Standard freight car correspondence files that occasionally might have a general drawing and track the changes from

Morgan Bilbo Ferroequinologist SPF PRRTHS #1204 Morgan, Since I have a professional source of scalpel blades, let me interject. First, a scalpel blade often becomes dulled very rapidly, even

Greg Martin wrote: Not true at all. Waybills were often altered and corrected. Jerry Stewart, who worked for years as a car clerk, stated to me that only a minority of waybills, probably less

Changing cars in route for stock doesn't make sense to me as you would have to create a completely new waybill for the move. This would be an agents nightmare. I would think the stock would be loaded

hmmm, - I guess I'm confused. The on-line photos show no indentation at the centre sill/body bolster junction. happy new year! I may look into it further in

Left unsaid in my comments of a few days ago was my reason for objection to calling something a "Simplex truck." The Simplex bolsters were sold for use with many different trucks, and indeed, were

Rob, It would appear, given that the Simplex Bolster trucks have become available again, that TLT is continuing to use the original truck molds. I just built a number of Westerfield Fowlers for a

Rob Kirkham wrote: Rob, the U.S. standard bolster height as shown in Cycs was increased to 25-3/4 inches in the 1920s. This is one reason many older trucks were replaced thereafter. A

Sorry to come in a bit late on this but we're on holiday so I'm not getting much wireless time. I am not sure why the old Canadian Hobbycraft bolster height issue came about - one might question that

I have all of the freight car classification books and freight car lot lists. Info on rebuilding is found for some lots but not all of them. I have never found any specific references that would

But Tim This is where I disagree. Simply because I'm such a tightwad. Yes, you replace the blade as it becomes even slightly dull. But I replace them with resharpened blades. I don't buy them very

Thanks Tim That was one of my questions. Can the blades be resharpened and still be good. I forget all the numbers, but #17/18 sound right. And yes, I whetstone them too. Or any other Xacto blade

Hello Bill, I like the #11 on a regular bais and at times the #12 blades and use them in a MM soft grip ( like the No. 1 Xacto ). I have tried several scalpel blades handles and do not like them. I

1958 And, Happy New Year to you and everyone else. -- Frank Greene Memphis, TN

I think it was typical to transfer stock to a home road car if they were available. There is nothing on the paperwork to indicate special instructions. ______________ J. Stephen (Steve)

I've been using scalpels for a while and much prefer them them to 'modelling' knives. I have a couple of #3 handles, one with a #10 curved blade and one with a #10A straight blade. I might have look